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Born 1338?
Died 1399?
Notable Works “La Geste de Liùge” ‱ “Ly Myreur des histors”
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
French philosopher and historian
François Rabelais
François Rabelais
French author
Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons
Alphonse de Lamartine
French poet, historian, and statesman
Quinet, oil painting by Sebastien-Melchior Cornu, 1833; in the Musee Carnavalet, Paris
Edgar Quinet
French historian and poet
François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon
François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon
French archbishop and theologian
AubignĂ©, detail of an oil painting by Bartholomaus Sarburgh, 1622; in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switz.
ThĂ©odore-Agrippa d’ AubignĂ©
French soldier and author
Medieval illuminated painting by Loyset Liedet showing the Battle of Sluys with armored soldiers fighting on crowded wooden ships, some falling into the water, with banners and sails overhead.
Jean Froissart
French poet and historian
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HĂ©lĂšne Cixous
French author
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HonorĂ© d’ UrfĂ©
French author
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Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin
French author
Bussy-Rabutin, Roger de
Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
French author
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Jean-François Sarasin
French author
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Henri Martin
French historian
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Bana
Indian writer
Francis Godwin, detail of an engraving by G. Vertue, derived from an earlier portrait, frontispiece to De Praesulibus Angliae, 1743
Francis Godwin
English bishop and historian
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Jean Le Bel
French historian
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François Furet
French historian
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Edmond Goncourt
French author
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Jules Goncourt
French author
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Louis-Alexandre Chatrian
French author